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A Study on the welfare measures and their Impact on QWL provided by the Sugar companies with reference to East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Abstract:
The Sugar factories play a vital role in human life. Sugar industry is one of the
important industries of India for earning Foreign Exchange and giving employment to lakhs of
workers. Because of being highly labour intensive industry it needs to concentrate more in the
area of employee‟s welfare measures. East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh, India has
taken as a sample for this study, for identifying various methods and also to identify the
effectiveness of the methods. The study shows that 15% of the employees are highly satisfied
with their welfare measures. 22% of the employees are satisfied with their welfare measures.
39% of the employees are average with their welfare measures. 16% of them are in highly
dissatisfied welfare measures play an important role in employee satisfaction and it results in
improved quality of work life. This study throws light on the impact of welfare measures on
QWL among the employees of Sugar factories in Andhra Pradesh.
Introduction
The term welfare suggests the state
of well being and implies wholesomeness
of the human being. It is a desirable state
of existence involving the mental, physical,
moral and emotional factor of a person.
Adequate level of earnings, safe and human
conditions of work and access to some
minimum social security benefits are the
major qualitative dimensions of
employment which enhance quality of life
of workers and their productivity.
Institutional mechanisms exist for ensuring
these to workers in the organized sector of
the economy. These are being strengthened
or expanded to the extent possible.
However, workers in the unorganized
sector, who constitute 90 per cent of the
total workforce, by and large, do not have
access to such benefits. Steps need to be
taken on a larger scale than before to
improve the quality of working life of the
unorganized workers, including women
workers.
Review of Literature
In the view of K.K.Chaudhuri, in
his Human Resurces: A Relook to the
workplace, states that HR policies are being
made flexible. From leaves to
compensations, perks to office facilities,
many companies are willing to customize
polices to suit different employee
segments. The older employees want
social security benefits, younger employees
want cash in hand because they can‟t think
of sticking to a company for many years
and retire from the same company.
Therefore „one jacket fits all‟ will not be
right to motivate the talents and retain
them. Conventions and Recommendation
of ILO (1949) sets forth a fundamental
principle at its 26th conference held in
Philadelphia recommended some of the
measures in the area of welfare measures
which includes adequate protection for life
and health of workers in all occupations,
provision for child welfare and maternity
protection, provision of adequate nutrition,
housing and facilities for recreation and
culture, the assurance of equality of
educational and vocational opportunity etc.,
Conclusions
Generally, welfare measures are
recreational, medical, educational, housing,
sanitation and so on. Every organization
provides the statutory welfare measures but
some organization provides some more
welfare facilities to the employees so that
they may retain the employees and their
quality of work life. By the result of
improved quality of work life among the
employees and their involvement in job
gets increased and results in increased
productivity of the organization. The
organizations maintaining smooth
relationship between workers and
management, which leads to attainment of
organization efforts. By conducting this
study we could infer that the Employees of
Sugar Factories in East Godavari District
are satisfied with the welfare measures
provided by their organizations.